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TRIFLE
Definition of TRIFLE
noun
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (829)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TRIFLE · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRIFLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 58 boards so far. 106 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRIFLE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFILRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TRIFLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRIFLE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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